Chapter 1
The Stranger in the Kitchen
Cassandra Deanna Dorian had always been a nice, normal kid. She was what she called hazelnut brown-haired (though many called it “a frizzy mass of mouse brown stuff”) and had extraordinarily blue eyes. She was short for her age, skinny, and quiet. Her favorite aspect of her appearance was her strange, but interesting, overly pointed ears which caused her mother called Cassandra ‘faery ears’. She was 12, and in 6th grade. She went to school in a big, red brick building called Watson City North School. Watson City had three schools, the North School, the East School and the South School. The South school taught Pre-K through 5th. The North School taught 6th through 8th. The East . . . 9th through however many grades there are. Cassie didn’t know.
She did know that she was practically invisible to anyone. A qhost in a hoodie and jeggings that was always trying to be noticed with no effect. Cassie, as she prefered to be called, had no friends and
